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*[[7th Gurkha Rifles]]
*[[8th Gurkha Rifles]]
*[[9th Gurkha Rifles]]
*[[10th Gurkha Rifles]]
The 11th Gurkha Rifles was raised during the 1st World War then disbanded. The 25th, 26th & 29th Gurkha Rifles were raised during the 2nd World War then disbanded.
On the FIBIS website British Indian Army regiments are listed with titles as at the re-organisation of 1895. So 6th, 7th & 8th Gurkha Rifles are in articles titled 42nd, 43rd & 44th Gurkha Rifles. At the Partition of India in 1947 the regiments were given the choice of attachment to the British Army or the Indian Army. The 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th & 10th Regiments chose Britain. The 3rd, 4th, 5th , 8th & 9th Regiments chose India.
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Rifles Khyber 11th_Gorkha_Rifles Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia<br>[http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSIGurkha Gurkha] Wikipedia<br/> ==== Historical books on-line ====[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900
[[Category:Indian Army Infantry Regiments]]
